Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 12 BLUE AND HUFF; OR, THE INS OT. Whose regular ideas fear Militia much, more volunteer; A wild inapplicable genius, Scarce vers'd in policy's qme genus; In syntax yet more scantly read, Without one concord in his head. Now, Muse, direct the shaft of wit, Where little P?ty apes great Pitt, This year in woe-begone oration, To Britons paints a bankrupt nation; Resources all dilapidate, Taxation at extremes rate; While next this little, great, small man, Heigh presto pass by one bold plan, Restores you all to peace and plenty; The deuce is in't, won't this content you ? With necromantic rod of Moses, (A twig cut from a bush of roses, ) To ease at once your every fear, Turns bear to bull, and bull to bear. Nor miss, dear Muse, to gild my tale, The gallant E?1 of L?d?ej Who late to Paris post was sent, to, Become the dupe of Benevento; Hush'd to soft sleep like Baby Bunting, While Na/i the Great went out a-hunting. O was it, say, thou bonny chiel, Thy ardent love for Britain's weal, That led thy steps a peep to take At thy great territorial stake; The purchase of thine assignats, Thy Corso-gallican contrats, At once th'opprobrium and solution Of all thy love for revolution. The Muse recoils, as something shock'd her, To charge with harm the harmlet. Doctor; It is desired that this may not be mistaken for a sapling from the Constitutional luJge; as it is evident that both the fence, and the land it incloses, must have been quite out of sight when the Noble Lord made his puicbase. chapter{Section 4THE SCHOOL OF PITT. 13 When unayoce all allow, He would do right?if he knew how. But if, among this motley crew, One man of real parts we view, With mind for highest station fir, The colleague, friend, yet foe of Pitt; He to whose merits all men g...